As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

A local hospital is touting a new kind of open heart surgery. A local hospital is touting a new kind of open heart surgery. Levers and switches will replace scalpels in a hybrid operating room that's ...

Recently, 12 students from West Shamokin High School’s AP Biology and Anatomy classes traveled to Allegheny General Hospital ...

Wyoming, Mich.-based UM Health-West and Livonia-Mich.-based Trinity Health partnered to create an open-heart surgery operating room in the Grand Rapids, Mich., area, MLive reported Oct. 13. The ...

Frustrated by his inability to help these men, Harken began a series of experimental surgeries on animals. In the first round ...

When parts of the heart, such as the valves, do not work properly, it is possible to repair or replace them. The aortic and mitral valves are the ones that surgeons most commonly replace. Most valve ...

Pediatric anesthesiologist Doctor Erin Gottlieb, right, and nurse anesthetist Connor Larson monitor a patient during a pediatric heart surgery at Dell Children's Medical Center Wednesday, Feb. 19, ...

Upper St. Clair students learn from a member of Allegheny General Hospital’s surgery team while surgeons perform open heart surgery, viewable up close on the screen. Dr. George Magovern, who pushed ...